TIF: Yes

April 24, 2007

Aberdeen is on its way to having a beef-packing plant south of town. Unofficial results from Tuesday's election show 6,902 yes votes (66.54 percent) to 3,471 no votes (33.46 percent) . Dennis Hellwig of Aberdeen, the head of Northern Beef, celebrated with about 40 of his supporters at the Ward Hotel on Tuesday night. The process of finishing up financial paperwork for the plant will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Hellwig said, because everything was on hold until after the election. Dirt work will resume at the plant site once the paperwork is done. The TIF means Northern Beef will use approximately $8.6 million in revenue from bonds, issued by the county, to pay mainly for infrastructure at the plant site. Most of the company's property taxes will be used to pay off the bonds over a maximum of 20 years. There are 23,913 registered voters in Brown County.